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post Aug 3 2006, 12:06 PM
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Kylie and I were eating dinnner at Red Lobster *IN* Rohnert Park. Freaky for about 5 seconds... I moved up just in time!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/boldblue.gif)
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post Aug 3 2006, 12:11 PM
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What did you expect, we've had earthquake weather for three weeks now (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

The pacific plate west of the san andreas fault is trying to go north.
The continental plate is trying to stay still. The pacific plate pushes up against the continental plate but because the fault is angled it results in a compression/slide slip fault.
It hangs up for a long time and then goes bang.
Eventually in 100 million years or so (guess) the land west of the san andreas will be up around alaska.
It won't fall off into the ocean, it will just keep moving north. If san Francisco times it right they will beat the global warming thing (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
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post Aug 3 2006, 12:13 PM
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We were watching Survivor rerun at the time. They had a quake on the TV and then we had one. very strange.

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post Aug 3 2006, 12:28 PM
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QUOTE(Sammy @ Aug 3 2006, 11:11 AM) *

What did you expect, we've had earthquake weather for three weeks now (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

The pacific plate west of the san andreas fault is trying to go north.
The continental plate is trying to stay still. The pacific plate pushes up against the continental plate but because the fault is angled it results in a compression/slide slip fault.
It hangs up for a long time and then goes bang.
Eventually in 100 million years or so (guess) the land west of the san andreas will be up around alaska.
It won't fall off into the ocean, it will just keep moving north. If san Francisco times it right they will beat the global warming thing (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)


One can see examples of this plate movement in places like Point Lobos near Carmel. Granite deposits from southern part of the Sierra mountains can be found the west side of the San Andreas fault. In a couple billion years part of California might become an island. That is if there is anything left of earth at that time.
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post Aug 3 2006, 12:59 PM
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the 1:30am quake up in our area was centered around the battle ground, washington area, just outside vancouver. it was a good little jostle, woke us up too!

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post Aug 3 2006, 04:49 PM
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Yeah we felt that 3.8-4.0 at 1:30 this morning and also an aftershock at 3:20am

We are in La Center
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post Aug 3 2006, 05:31 PM
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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) nothing here, THIS time......

I felt the last 'big one' here in Phoenix though, the one that dropped some of the freeway sections in San Francisco, IIRC.

It was early in the morning, it felt like someone had dropped a safe or something right outside our house. I flipped on the television, it took the 'news' about twenty minutes to catch up. A pal of mine who lives nearby here reported the water sloshing out of his 'built-in' pool. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)


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P.S. Hard to believe but true. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
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post Aug 3 2006, 05:39 PM
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QUOTE(Flat VW @ Aug 3 2006, 04:31 PM) *

I felt the last 'big one' here in Phoenix though, the one that dropped some of the freeway sections in San Francisco, IIRC.

It was early in the morning...


Then it wasn't the one that dumped the SF freeways. That was the famous 89 quake, which happened just after 5 PM. Right at the start of one of the Giants/A's world series game, remember?

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post Aug 3 2006, 05:43 PM
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Oh, of course, you are right, Dave.

This quake was at about 5 a.m. here and the sun was up already, so it had to be summertime here.

John

P.S. I guess I did not recall that one correctly. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)
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post Aug 3 2006, 05:52 PM
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QUOTE(Dave_Darling @ Aug 3 2006, 04:39 PM) *

QUOTE(Flat VW @ Aug 3 2006, 04:31 PM) *

I felt the last 'big one' here in Phoenix though, the one that dropped some of the freeway sections in San Francisco, IIRC.

It was early in the morning...


Then it wasn't the one that dumped the SF freeways. That was the famous 89 quake, which happened just after 5 PM. Right at the start of one of the Giants/A's world series game, remember?

--DD


Yep 5 PM I have never run two flights of stairs faster in my life. I was in the top story of a concrete tilt up building in San Jose. Ground was still shaking so hard by time I got to the pavement outside I had to hold on to a chain link fence to stay on my feet. I was in a big open parking lot and ground looked like waves of water about 3 feet high
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QUOTE(grantsfo @ Aug 3 2006, 04:52 PM) *

QUOTE(Dave_Darling @ Aug 3 2006, 04:39 PM) *

QUOTE(Flat VW @ Aug 3 2006, 04:31 PM) *

I felt the last 'big one' here in Phoenix though, the one that dropped some of the freeway sections in San Francisco, IIRC.

It was early in the morning...


Then it wasn't the one that dumped the SF freeways. That was the famous 89 quake, which happened just after 5 PM. Right at the start of one of the Giants/A's world series game, remember?

--DD


Yep 5 PM I have never run two flights of stairs faster in my life. I was in the top story of a concrete tilt up building in San Jose. Ground was still shaking so hard by time I got to the pavement outside I had to hold on to a chain link fence to stay on my feet. I was in a big open parking lot and ground looked like waves of water about 3 feet high



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post Aug 3 2006, 08:13 PM
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It won't fall off into the ocean, it will just keep moving north. If san Francisco times it right they will beat the global warming thing (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
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post Aug 3 2006, 08:15 PM
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When she's around, the earth always moves. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer.gif) One inch forward, one inch back..................
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